How much can I make in affiliate marketing?
If you put the time in and wonder how much you can make in affiliate marketing the sky literally is the limit. If you don’t work much and work at your affiliate projects part time you can make money but you’re not going to make millions anytime soon. If you focus and really stay consistent you’re going to make more money than your average college graduate and you’ll enjoy it.
How much can I make in affiliate marketing?
This is only one advertiser paying me on one affiliate account, so you know.
Here is what you need to know when you’re starting out.
1. Traffic
2. Don’t worry about how you’re going to get paid
3. Understand that traffic is money
4. Start building traffic
Most people make the mistake of trying to figure out how they are going to get paid in affiliate marketing instead of how they are going to generate traffic and conversions. If you can generate traffic, especially targeted traffic you are going to make a fortune in affiliate marketing. Now you’re thinking, but if I don’t know how I’m going to get paid.. why waste my time? You are not wasting your time, you are accumulating the resources needed to succeed.
In affiliate marketing, how much you make depends on how much traffic you can generate.
Think about it like this…
1. You research, then select interstates with lots of vehicle traffic
2. You build a billboard on those interstates
3. Now you can put whatever ads you want on those billboards or let others pay you to place their ads
If you build a billboard on a highway that has no traffic… you’ll spend a lot of time and won’t make any money. If you target a highway with a lot of traffic but it already has a lot of billboards, it’s going to be more difficult to find a spot to put your billboard and it will cost you a lot more money to get your billboard somewhere it will be viewed easily.
This is the same thing on the internet, if you target keywords that have the following:
1. No traffic
- Waste of time, no one will visit
2. Lots of traffic but very competitive
- Will take you more time and money to establish yourself, which makes it more difficult to get traffic
If you’re asking yourself what do I need to make money and how much can I make in affiliate marketing, I’m going to tell you again, if you can generate traffic you can make money – a lot of it!
